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Reacting to a stark spike in shootings that has left six people dead in the past two weeks, Salinas leaders brought in the uniformed cavalry and elevated their peace-building rhetoric. But the beefed-up patrols will likely only quiet gunfire temporarily.

A $15 million judgment against New Orleans' DA's office after a man who spent 14 years on death row was found not guilty of the crime for which he was convicted has new District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro on the financial ropes. And that may only be the beginning.

A mentally ill man fresh out of the Maine State Prison's Supermax killed three people in a botched robbery in New Hampshire -- he says he got no help in prison, Maine prison officials say they did nothing wrong, and the governor blames the killer.

In Africa, your vagina can get spikes for $2. Complete with sharkskin-like barbs that catch onto an invading penis, causing pain and preventing urination, and requiring specialized medical professionals to remove, the Rape-aXe is a real-world application of feminist theory.

James von Brunn, the accused shooter at the Holocaust Museum on Wednesday, is 88 years old. His age is no accident: "88" is white-supremacist code for "Heil Hitler." In printing his age, news outlets around the world have printed the white-supremacists' message.

Two major safety valves in the financial house of cards that is New England's largest landline telecommunications service provider blew last week, leaving FairPoint Communications in a position of significant weakness, even as the company admits that its financial picture will worsen in the short term.